Loretta Lynn's 85th Birthday

so last Friday country music legend Loretta Lynn rang in her 85th birthday with two back-to-back shows at the Ryman Auditorium it was slowing down there and Casey Haggerty got a chance to sit down with Loretta's daughter and the co-producer of her most recent grammy-nominated album full circle take a look the bus that you're in right now this is the original tour bus this was actually in the Moody Coal Miner's Daughter as well but I mean there would be 12 band members you can see there's not very much oh it's tight then my mom would bring my twin sister Anna and whatever farm animal we were raising I mean we had baby goats chickens they had to come with us because my dad gave us responsibility and it was your responsibility Patsy Lynne Russell reminisce is about growing up with her twin sister Peggy daughters of country music legend Loretta Lynn we've never known it any other way we've always shared with the world Peggy and I would be out in the audience and she would spot one of us and she'd say all right girls I see y'all out there in the audience get your butt to that bus right now you're grounded now whole crowd would be sending you they'd be shaming you better get to the best [Music] these days Patsy still spends a lot of time on the road with her mom and joining her on stage and off but the drifting was things so what was it like co-producing films album yeah getting to work with my mom in the studio getting to kind of behind the scenes witness her and all of her I don't see cheese because mom would get mad if I said that but it really is kind of like that in the belly of the well but Loretta Lynn is Loretta Lynn no matter where she is I grew up in this business and you meet a lot of artists and they have their stage persona and then they have their personal persona my mom does not have that she's the same all the time she didn't like something that we were doing she doesn't have any problem and saying are you kidding me I'm not going to do that just put that back to where she probably wouldn't be so playing with a producer producer I don't remember her talking to Jack white like that Patsy and John Carter Cash produced more than 100 tracks over five years we wanted the album to be called full circle and I think it was important to us because it's just such a wide range I mean it's brand-new songs my mom as a songwriter so she's constantly filling the whale with her music but she wanted to do songs from her childhood she wanted to remake some of the songs that her hits this January full circle was nominated for a Grammy for best country album I mean I'm just blessed I was sitting at the Grammys I couldn't go and pinch me pinch me is this real is this real although they didn't win Loretta Lynn still has more Awards than any other female country music artist in history the living legend celebrated her 85th birthday over the weekend performing back-to-back shows at the Ryman Auditorium [Music] there is no better place for her to spend her 85th birthday I mean all her life has been spent performing on the stage and so a lot of moms fanbase has come along with her on this journey through this 57 year career so far so when she looks out at the audience it's kind of like every night she's revisiting her old friends no I'm sure you're gonna birthday cake oh yeah so what's your mama like chocolate or vanilla she likes vanilla cake and she'd really like one of those big cakes you push out on stage and you know maybe like I don't know Keith Urban jump out of it [Music] I admire her so much her energy and her feistiness and her love for the audience and I think that that's what keeps my mom going [Music] and we got to work on getting Keith Urban to pop out of the cake for he would do it that's Loretta's request let's make it happen right still touring still making mutti music 85 years young and just announced new album you're looking at it wouldn't it be great that is coming out this August I just love this lady so much you can pre-order your copy now you can go to Loretta Lynn comm and she does a big show at hurricane Mills every year and I had a chance to run into her a couple weeks ago and she said yep we're doing it so it'll be out there hurricane this already

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Published: Tue Apr 18 2017